68 YEJOYID^E. 



52. Scorpiops insculptus, n. sp. 



. In size, colour, and most structural features resembling 

 S. hardwickii. Upper side of trunk smoother, the granulation 

 much less distinct, consisting of low, smootb,squamiform tubercles 

 fusing and running into ridges to a much greater extent than in 

 S. hardwickii, especially on the anterior terga. Tail granular and 

 carinate as in the latter. Chelae with humerus and brachium more 

 coarsely granular above ; the three posterior crests on the brachium 

 quite smooth, as in S. hardwickii:, 7 brachial pores and 3 normal 

 pores on underhand ; band very wide, its width exceeding the 

 length of the underhand and equal to the length of the movable 

 finger; sculpturing on the upper side of the hand consisting of 

 perfectly smooth, shining tubercles, forming in places an irregular 

 network of ridges, but showing no separate tubercles and granules 

 as in S. hanhvickii ; moreover, the inner horizontal area of the 

 upper side of the band is divided throughout by a smooth crest, 

 which rises from the finger-keel near the base of the immovable 

 finger and runs to the notch of the posterior border, where the 

 expanded portion of the hand arises ; underhand almost entirely 

 smooth. 



c? . Eesembling the $ more than in the case of S. hardwickii 

 the hand of the chflce not elongate as in the latter, but very 

 broad, the width being equal to the movable finger and exceeding 

 the length of the underhand ; movable finger much more strongly 

 curved than in S. hardwickii, its basal half with a deep and long 

 excavation behind a low long lobe, which is situated in the distal 

 half of the finger; immovable finger with large basal lobe, the rest 

 of its biting-edge nearly straight, only lightly convex. Pectinal 

 teeth 5-6(3, ? ). 



Measurements in mm. tf Total length 35, carapace 5, tail 19, 

 underhand 4, movable finger 4-5, width of hand 4-2. 



$ . Total length 37, carapace 4-5, tail 2O5, underhand 3-6, 

 movable finger 4, width of hand 4-3. 



Loc. Western Himalayas : Jaunsar, 6000-9000 ft. (Gamble <$ 

 Smythits) ; Dehra Dun, 2000 ft. (Gleadow\ 



53. Scorpiops crassimanus, PococJc, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. xii, p. 267, 

 1899. 



$> . Allied to the preceding, but larger. Colour black, with 

 reddish tinge on chelae ; median keel of terga yellowish anteriorly, 

 and there is a transverse reddish stripe on each side in the middle 

 of the terga. Upper side of trunk more finely granular than in 

 S. hardwickii, crest on last tergum and sternum also weaker. Tail 

 more powerful, about three and a half times as long as carapace, 

 which is only a little longer than the 5th segment ; intercarinal 

 spaces of tail not so coarsely granular, and keels not so strongly 

 denticulated, except the inferior laterals of the 5th, which are more 

 sharply and coarsely denticulated; superior keels of 3rd and 4th 



